Fair enough if you've made it every time previously. But if you're going to leave it till the last possible minute to get a train from Brighton station every time (and 30 minutes is pretty tight, given the matchday queues), then sooner or later you're gonna come a cropper. Because you are...
Well, there were several thousand people all wanting to make the same journey at the same time. Were you expecting to stroll onto an empty platform ?
The amount of time it took WAS ridiculous by normal standards this time, but you were still cutting it fine regardless and would have done well...
Yup.
Rocking up at Brighton station half an hour before kickoff and just assuming you'll make it is crazy. Missing most of the 1st half is obviously ridiculous, but I certainly wouldn't be hanging my hat on making kickoff if I strolled up to the station at 2.30 or 7.15.
No sireee
I think getting to the station at 7.15 is cutting it very fine.
Getting to the Amex 10 minutes before half time is obviously shitness of the highest order on behalf of Southern, but then I've come to expect that, and so would never, ever trust them to get me from Brighton station to Falmer...